Eurobasket number five for Montenegrin basketball players is slowly approaching, and four players who were previously regular members of our national team will certainly not be there, and maybe not even two more.
Boško Radović, the coach of the Montenegrin basketball team, announced a larger roster for the European Championship, which does not include Nikola Ivanović, Petar Popović, Nemanja Radović and Dino Radončić, and captain Bojan Dubljević is questionable due to personal reasons, as is Luka Bogavac, who is expected to go to the NCAA.
Ivanovic has been struggling with injuries for a long time, so he will use the summer for a break and rehabilitation, while Radoncic is injured...
The new name is the announced reinforcement Kyle Olman from Besiktas, while Montenegro will be led by Nikola Vučević.
The list includes 24 players: Kyle Olmen (Besiktas), Igor Drobnjak (Spartak Subotica), Ognjen Carapić (NK Pecs), Vladimir Mihailović (Zadar), Balša Živanović (Podgorica), Zoran Vučeljić (SC Derbi), Jovan Kljajić (Gran Canaria), Fedor Žugić (NCAA), Đorđije Jovanović (Buducnost Voli), Andrija Slavković (Buducnost Voli), Luka Bogavac (NCAA), Jovan Vojinović (Sutjeska), Pavle Đurišić (Podgorica), Petar Kusovac (Teodo), Marko Radunović (Podgorica), Emir Hadžibegović (SC Derbi), Bojan Tomašević (FMP), Andrija Grbović (NCAA), David Mirković (NCAA), Miloš Popović (Teodo), Filip Andušić (SC Derbi), Marko Simonović (without club), Zoran Nikolić (SC Derbi), Nikola Vučević (Chicago) and Bojan Dubljević (Zaragoza).
Montenegro will play the group stage of EuroBasket in Tampere with one of the championship hosts, the Finnish team, and Group B also includes Germany, Lithuania, Great Britain and Sweden.
According to the schedule, the first round will be played on August 27th, when Montenegro will meet Germany, two days later they will play Lithuania, while on August 30th they will play Finland. The first day of September is reserved for the duel with Sweden, while on the 3rd they will play against Great Britain.
Group A, which will be played in Riga, features Portugal, Estonia, Latvia, Turkey, Serbia and the Czech Republic. Limassol will host Group C, which, in addition to hosts Cyprus, also includes Italy, Spain, Georgia, Greece and Bosnia and Herzegovina, while Group D, which will be played in Katowice, features Poland, France, Slovenia, Belgium and Israel.
EuroBasket is scheduled to run from August 27 to September 14 and is organized by Finland, Latvia, Poland and Cyprus. The top four teams in each group advance to the round of XNUMX.
Montenegro will play in EuroBasket for the fifth time in history, and the third time in a row. At the previous championship, three years ago, our team was stopped by Germany in the round of 16 in Berlin.
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